what is this plant please

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• Paul B3 Posts: 3,154

  May 2018

  Probably one of the many Aquilegia hybrids .
  

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• Paul B3 Posts: 3,154

  May 2018

  PS  They do 'interbreed' and hybridise very readily in cultivation ; that one looks particularly nice .
  

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• DimWit Posts: 553

  May 2018

  Just wonder what the plant in bud beneath the aquilegia is...

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• Yorkshire Man Posts: 4

  May 2018

  Thanks,i have never seen a aqualegia so striking,i wish mine would hybridize like that,anyone know how to achieve this?

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  May 2018

  If you visit a good garden centre you will find Aquilegia in all colours.
  
  or get seeds Aquilegia flabellata Spring Magic.....all colours.
  
  https://www.jelitto.com/Seed/Perennials/AQUILEGIA+flabellata+Spring+Magic-Series+Spring+Magic+Mix+Portion+s.html
  
  If you want a  nice species red and yellow one look for Aquilegia canadensis.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=Aquilegia+canadensis&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKnfv2hqvbAhVIdcAKHSF9DSEQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=943
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Yorkshire Man Posts: 4

  May 2018

  Thanks,i was wondering if there are two types that would pollinate and make a colourful hybrids,and would i have to take pollen and brush the pistils to cross them or leave it to mother nature,ie,insects,wind,etc?

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2018

  I've an aquilegia that looks just like that ... it's a great performer ... keep deadheading and it'll keep flowering all summer.  
  
  I think it's one of the American hybrids developed from Aquilegia caerulea.  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2018

  Meant to say, they quite happily hybridize all by themselves and I leave them to get on with it.  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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